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Knee Action Chevrolet MD 1938

 

Celso Costa
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Hi all, 

I do not live in the US and, thus, I am not able to send the knee action schock absorbers of my car for repair at Apple Hydraulics or similar. Unfortunatelly, I will need to coordinate their rebuild myself.

Could you help me by sending photos, articles or videos to assist me on this mission? I have read in many different locations about a very good article in an old  publication of Generator & Distributor. Does anyone have a copy of this article and could send it to me (via e-mail)?

I highly appreciate all help on this matter.

Thank you very much.


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Minetto
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Celso,  I believe I have the article or something similar on my home computer. Unfortunately I’m away until the end of this week before I can send it to you. By the way, I  did use the information contained in the article to disassemble and reseal the shocks on my 34 Master. At the time, a reproduction seal and gasket kit was available on eBay.  I may be able to help with other details before you begin from what I learned doing both shocks. Mike



   
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Celso Costa
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The car was restored many years ago but ran very little. It is leaking from the connection of the wheel arm to the shock absorber and from the "hats" of the dual shock absorbers. I do not want to fully open it but fix the leaking points. I appreciate any good directions. Thanks.



   
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Minetto
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Celso,  Hopefully you can open this document using the attached link.  It is what I used as an initial guide for disassembly of the shocks although I did not follow it exactly. For example, I discovered that it was much easier to disassemble the shock while it was still attached to the car.  That way I didn’t need to fabricate a fixture to hold it while removing the top cap and other parts.   Also, the shock absorber caps are under quite a bit of tension so I replaced one bolt at a time with progressively longer bolts so I could control the tension while loosening them.  I discovered my shocks had already been converted to bushings as opposed to needle bearings so all that was necessary was resealing, no machining was necessary.  Resealing the shock absorber caps and the retaining bolts was a chore.  Since I was unable to find replacement lead washers, I used gasket sealer on the bolt threads.  I have other documents that are not electronic that may help if you have other questions.  I’ll check the files in my shop  to see if I can find the name of the eBay vendor that I bought the seal kit from.  Lastly one word of caution, I broke the ears off two different shock absorber caps before I discovered the valve spring inside it was stuck and not relieving the hydraulic pressure. I suspect the additional hydraulic force was causing the problem.  Mike

 

https://studebaker-info.org/Tech/Shocks/kneeaction.pdf



   
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